When his understudy responded with 15 – three gold, six silver and six bronze – the tubby tyrant flew into a rage and demanded his athletes bring him home at least FIVE or face being sent to a concentration camp.

But last night the country's top weightlifter Kim Myong Hyok delivered a big fat fail.

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GRIM: Kim Myong Hyok faces a very bleak future after failing to bag a gold medal

Tellingly, he failed twice at 188kg but only needed to lift 186kg to get a bronze medal.

Yet instead he went for 196kg on his last lift because it would win him a gold.

So far the North Koreans have not yet won gold, only two silvers in weightlifting. So the pressure in on.

On Monday when North Korean weightlifter Om Yun-chol failed to win a gold medal, a destressed looking high-ranking official Choe Ryong-hae stomped out of the Riocentro-Pavilion 2 venue.

Meanwhile, Yun-chol was inconsolable.

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One can only imagine Kim's reaction to this back in North Korea as he watched from his lair.

With only gold mattering, concerns are growing for the North Korean athletes’ fate when they return home.

It is feared they will be sent to Aoji coal mine in North Hamgyong Province ― a notorious concentration camp on a par with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's infamous Gulags.

After the 2010 FIFA World Cup, it is believed football coach Kim Jong-hun was sent there because of the team’s poor performance.